Window-screen.



S. FIEDLER.

WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED APR. ls. |917.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

INVENTOH WITNESSES ATTORN EY UNITED -sTArEs SOPHIA FIEDlLER, OF BC'WDLE, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARTIN T. K

l ANDERSON, OF BOWDLE, SOUTH A DAKOT WINDOW-SCREEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 22, 1918.

Application flied April 16, 1917. Serial No. 162,421.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOPHIA FinoLEn, a citizen of the United States. residing at Bowdle, in the county of Edmunds and State ot' South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Screens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in window screens and mor particularly to a device of this character a( apted to be fitted to a window without changing or modifying the construction thereof and so arranged that the screen proper is mounted upon a roll to be moved over the window opening, or cleared therefrom.

An object of my invention resides in p viding a supporting :trame structure gether with a roller on which the wire or other screen fabric is to be taken up, and means by which the roller is actuated.

various adjustments, and alsomeans to draw in the side edges of the screen fabric to establish an insect proof closure at these points.

lVith the above and other objects in view, which will be in part described and in part understood from the specification, drawing, and claims, my invention consists incertain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a device constructed after the manner of my invention;

Fig; 2 is a vertical sectional `View taken on the line 2-2 of Fie. 1; u

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but taken on the line 3--3 of Fi 1;

Fig. gt is a horizontal sectional line 1 4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail View to show the means for holding the screen strips heine' taken up h v the roller; and.

Fig. l isa detail View to better disclose the arrangement ofthe structure for drawingr in the edges of the screen strip.

A t'rame structure generally designated by the reference character 1 is made up of angle. iron or other suitable members and is of rectangular form. this frame portion being ol' such size that it will fit within the casing view on the A with vertically extending racks 2 slde. A roller 3 is mounted in suitable bearings at the top of the frame portion 1 and on one end has a spool or cable drum 4 provided, a tube 5 being in line with this spool or drum 4 and a weight 6 being mounted within the tube and carried on the free end of a cable 7 which is connected on'the spool drum 4. A screen strip 8, which is of wire fabric or of other suitable material is mounted on the roller 3 and is carried down over the opening of the frame 1, a strip 9 eing connected on the free edge thereof. Slide bearings 1G and 11 are carried by this stript) and the rods. 12 and 13 are slidnbly mounted in these bearings 10, pieces 11 being provided on these rods, as is better shown in Fig. The bearings 10 and 1 are so rods 12 and 13 have the outer ends there of in proicimity to the racks 2 and a coil N' urge the same outwardly so that the ends thereof will engage `with the teeth of the rack portions 2. The outer ends of the rods 12 and 13 work through a guiding strip 12 secured to the inner face of the screen 8, the strip 12 being suitahl slotted to permit the operation of the ro s 12 and 13 therethrough.

The screen strip is carried over an idler roller or a rod 16, and is thus kept straight adjacent the roller 3, and a frame 17 is made of such size that it lits ovel` the side edges of the screen strip after the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2. this frame portionl being provided with a plurality of more or less resilient fingers 1B, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The trame portiony 17 has a relatively loose mounting as it is carried b v the links 19 which have pivotal mounting,` in the bearings 20 of the frame 17 and at their opposite ends are pivotally mounted on hearings .11 on the rods 22, of which one is provided for each side of the frame. 'l'hese links 19 are received through slit-Tikil openings 23 of the frame structure the handle f comme #gwn out ih the we' Wonu fasi' al pmt/imi Saw/enea? A, sucture :5; which fb: e. id l'olel ,Screen sM Glind OOs v and act-e1 ing of' il@ u a simple m! biliy of 3&6 placed ozheren show SCYGE li www nocted with the loiier and fitted to be moved :ici-oss to cover the opening of the frame, moans ii); which the. svimn strip hold in various lioSitions of extension across the opening of' the fl'nmo, :i second frame mounted in conjunction wiih the first mentioned frame, means to draw said second frame donn against the side odges of the Screen strip, und more o1' less resilient fingers carz'icd by snid scond mentioned frame to ux crt pressure against the, edges of the Screen sii'ip to positively force tho Sanno against the first mentioned frame und hoid the strip against buiging und sagging.

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